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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hello,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Did you attend attend
Cathy Malmrose's lecture about Linux Hardware? <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.haifux.org/lectures/202/">http://www.haifux.org/lectures/202/</a><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I suppose not, because
we had a discussion about culture differences between the US and
Israel. To make a long story short: Many of them see a computer as a
package you're not allowed to open (and the "warranty void" sticker
helps with that).</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">So while some people
consider Linux as yuck and others like it, and most normal people
haven't heard about it, at least I don't believe you'll find someone
thinking that installing free software on your computer is illegal. Or
maybe the question is if anyone here cares about it at all.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Eli<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Eran Arbel wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">I've read this thing on Slashdot: <a
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href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F29%2F0819207&amp;from=rss">http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F29%2F0819207&amp;from=rss</a><br>
This is about the third or fourth time it's come up, a story of a texan
teacher who was so ignorant of the non-Microsfot world she thought that
everything not Microsfot made was criminal.<br>
If you haven't read it yet, I urge you and if you have, what are your
thoughts on the matter?<br>
And from the people higher then me on the food chain (probably
everybody here) what is the situation in the Technion/Haifa U? Are many
people in the know? Are many people completely against?<br>
I see some labs here that run Linux, some that run only Linux and some
that oppose it.<br>
Frankly, where I work, besides the windows-only specific environments,
people don't take transition to FOSS lightly.<br clear="all">
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-- <br>
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking
distance.<br>
And no one ever said being a heretic was easy.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<br>
May we meet in Less Interesting Times...<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://eran.geek.co.il">http://eran.geek.co.il</a><br>
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